How Did America Grow After Independence

In 1783 America becomes free from England 's hand over them. It all became official because of a Treaty that they signed, which is the Treaty of Paris 1783. America had started with not having any freedom, to having freedom all on their own now. Now that America is free, it is their job to try to clean their self up. They had the opportunity to make laws of their own and be able to follow them. America had wanted to write their own laws and make them official, since England has never done that before. During this “cleaning up” time for America, nothing has been easy. Everything that you could imagine has been thrown at their way. People of the land are trying to make things for their own state. States had begun to write their own constitutions …show more content…
The compromise doubled the number of people in Congress. There would now be the House of Representatives and the Senate. They would also come up with the 3/5 compromise. The 3/5 Compromise stated that slaves would be only 3/5 so the states wouldn’t be so big. After these compromise’s the Constitution is basically rewritten where Congress is now bigger than it was, and now there is a President involved and a Supreme Court. States would have a vote for the new constitution to see if it would be the law of the land. When states come together and vote, that is a form of …show more content…
It would grow so much that a Civil War would break out. The Civil War broke out because the two sides could not come together, as a democracy, and decide what to do with slavery. One side wanted slavery, the other side did not want it. There could not be any compromise that could have fixed this situation. The war seemingly, looks like something that had to happen for both sides to be on the same page. They would eventually get on the same page when the South would loose, and slavery would become banned. The South was seemed to be prepared for this war, and ended up loosing in the long